Other Research & Data

• Lower socioeconomic status in childhood linked to racial differences in disability during adulthood

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February 6 2013 20130206

New Children's Electronic Health Record Format Announced

Other News & Events

• Adjusting hospital admissions by day can help with overcrowding in children's hospitals
• Adverse drug event surveillance tailored to hospitalized children
• Adverse events occurring during pediatric sedation are recorded in charts but not always reported
• Both laparoscopic and open surgical techniques found effective for moving undescended testicles to normal position
• Care setting affects likelihood that children with persistent asthma will receive inhaled steroids
• Certain antibiotics increase the risk of treatment failure in children with MRSA-related skin and soft-tissue infections
• Certain factors can help prepare families to bring infants home from neonatal intensive care units
• Certain factors increase risk of medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
• Children with a medical home more likely to receive health screenings and advice
• Despite recommendations against it, early discharge of late-preterm newborns remains common
• Distance-based training in spirometry use increases the quality of asthma diagnosis
• Electronic health record decision support improves the care of children with ADHD
• Having a usual source of care promotes preventive health counseling for children
• Health insurance is necessary but not sufficient for children's access to care
• Ketorolac, a pain medication, is underused in children operated on for
• Label changes, manufacturer's warning letter did not reduce use of propofol for conscious sedation in children
• Low- and middle-income children with public and private insurance have similar rates of unmet health care needs
• Lower socioeconomic status in childhood linked to racial differences in disability during adulthood
• Measuring quality of care for middle ear infection has many pitfalls
• Medical home for children and youth improves delivery of preventive services without raising expenditures
• Only one-third of adolescents are screened for emotional health during routine physicals
• Pilot study finds a low level of medication errors for look-alike, sound-alike drugs prescribed for children
• Poverty, race, and gender are all factors in the epidemic of severely obese children
• Quality improvement collaborative improves outcomes in children with inflammatory bowel disease
• Quality improvement collaborative improves outcomes in children with inflammatory bowel disease
• Recommendations on rounding pediatric doses may improve e-prescribing while reducing risk of adverse drug events
• Study identifies signals that may predict infant neurological impairment
• Study questions usefulness of hospital readmission rates as marker of care quality for pediatric sickle cell disease
• Surgery and imaging rates for children's kidney stones are stable, but vary greatly from hospital to hospital
• The quality of children's asthma care is affected by emergency department crowding
• The stability of a usual source of care is important to the care of low-income children
• Two different tools help measure tracheal intubation adverse events and performance in pediatric intensive care units